# Just Saying Hi... I'm New **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293 "2013-10-03T20:11:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![M253-The-Invader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@M253-The-Invader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M253-The-Invader)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/1 "2013-10-03T20:11:39Z")
There seems to be no other place to say “I’m happy to be here.” ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/2 "2013-10-03T20:14:27Z")
Welcome. Thank you for not entering upon this realm in troll-like fashion like the past couple newbies. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/3 "2013-10-03T20:18:10Z")
> [@M253-The-Invader](#): > > There seems to be no other place to say “I’m happy to be here.” Usually, intros go into the Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share(MPSIMS) Forum. I’m sure a moderator will be along shortly to move your thread there-no harm, no foul. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/4 "2013-10-03T20:19:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Usually, intros go into the Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share(MPSIMS) Forum. I’m sure a moderator will be along shortly to move your thread there-no harm, no foul. 😉 WOW! Done before I finished the sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/5 "2013-10-03T20:19:42Z")
Hello and welcome. I’m moving this to MPSIMS (Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share from the About This Message Board forum. That’s where introductions like this usually go. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/6 "2013-10-03T20:22:35Z")
Welcome, welcome, welcome! Glad to have you with us. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/7 "2013-10-03T20:23:20Z")
Come join us in the Game Room. So fun! Bring a cigar even! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/8 "2013-10-03T20:25:45Z")
Welcome to the asylum! If you need a [del]doctor[/del]moderator, just push the little red triangle in the upper right hand corner of the post and yell into the speaker. Meds at 7am and 5pm, and no visitors after 8pm. And stay the hell out of the red chair-it’s mine. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/9 "2013-10-03T20:28:43Z")
We’re being invaded! Hide the good tableware! ---
**Author:** ![Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mander)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/10 "2013-10-03T20:39:43Z")
Hi there. I’m new too. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/11 "2013-10-03T20:44:21Z")
Howdy new folks and welcome Squid and Goat time, woo hoo. :: off to find Squid and Goat:: **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![Strangeland64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@Strangeland64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strangeland64)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/12 "2013-10-03T20:44:32Z")
Hi, I’m new too… didn’t intro so may as jump in too. I’m usually just an observer/reader as most people on here are way smarter than me 😉 ---
**Author:** ![M253-The-Invader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@M253-The-Invader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M253-The-Invader)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/13 "2013-10-03T20:45:07Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Welcome to the asylum! If you need a [del]doctor[/del]moderator, just push the little red triangle in the upper right hand corner of the post and yell into the speaker. Meds at 7am and 5pm, and no visitors after 8pm. > And stay the hell out of the red chair-it’s mine. Thanks. Who owns the blue bath robe? I’ve been in a lot of forums. I could not take the non-factual and basically made-up crap. I’m really science-based so a fact is just that. Anything else slows the advancement of mankind. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/14 "2013-10-03T20:48:06Z")
> [@M253-The-Invader](#): > > Thanks. Who owns the blue bath robe? I’ve been in a lot of forums. I could not take the non-factual and basically made-up crap. I’m really science-based so a fact is just that. Anything else slows the advancement of mankind. You’ll do. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/15 "2013-10-03T20:49:20Z")
If you wish come and join us in the MMP (Monday Morning Post). There is one going on all week every week, the MMP FAQ is at the top of this forum. We are friendly and happy to have newcomers. It is a good place to get a feel for the Dope IMHO, plus you get a nickname. Cheers **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/16 "2013-10-03T21:06:16Z")
Welcome! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![M253-The-Invader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@M253-The-Invader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M253-The-Invader)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/17 "2013-10-03T21:09:41Z")
> [@M253-The-Invader](#): > > There seems to be no other place to say “I’m happy to be here.” I guess I’d remark that a specified thread be established stating: New To The Forum… thanks I’m here anyway. To answer questions before they arrive. M253 is a genetic group where M253 is a mutation different enough to change it from its original assignment: Haplogroup I1. M253 originated in Denmark around 5000 years ago. It was named “The Invader” by British geneticists because it came to Britain by way of invaders from Denmark and Frisia (what is now Holland), as well as Germany. Roughly 400 years later the Vikings from Scandinavia invaded bringing more M253. I think the ability to watch the movie series “Saw” and other so-called bloody horrors are thanks to the head-chopping distant relatives of mine. I had a DNA analysis done by Genographic Project, it showed M253 big time and right there. Present in every Germanic tribe, M253 was taken south across Europe to Constantinople and to Rome where that genetic group got to having a party and sacked the city. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/18 "2013-10-03T21:14:32Z")
Anyone genetically inclined to party is o.k. in my book. ---
**Author:** ![M253-The-Invader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@M253-The-Invader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M253-The-Invader)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/19 "2013-10-03T21:16:33Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > If you wish come and join us in the MMP (Monday Morning Post). There is one going on all week every week, the MMP FAQ is at the top of this forum. We are friendly and happy to have newcomers. It is a good place to get a feel for the Dope IMHO, plus you get a nickname. > > Cheers > > **Capt** An all week Monday… hmm. I’m sure to certain working people that sounds like horror. It also sounds like a full-time hangover (joking). Thank you for the invite. Now I can really not do the Paleo Florida web work I have vowed to do. I also have a football pool to not get results and post. Oh happiness. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293/20 "2013-10-03T21:23:52Z")
> [@M253-The-Invader](#): > > To answer questions before they arrive. M253 is a genetic group where M253 is a mutation different enough to change it from its original assignment: Haplogroup I1. M253 originated in Denmark around 5000 years ago. It was named “The Invader” by British geneticists because it came to Britain by way of invaders from Denmark and Frisia (what is now Holland), as well as Germany. Roughly 400 years later the Vikings from Scandinavia invaded bringing more M253. I think the ability to watch the movie series “Saw” and other so-called bloody horrors are thanks to the head-chopping distant relatives of mine. > > I had a DNA analysis done by Genographic Project, it showed M253 big time and right there. Present in every Germanic tribe, M253 was taken south across Europe to Constantinople and to Rome where that genetic group got to having a party and sacked the city. Hm. Follow my family tree back to the 1400s and you end up in Denmark. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saying-hi-im-new/670293.md?page=2)